So we’d like to go to it next year. See this BBC piece on Scotland’s New Year’s bash this year: “Edinburgh Hogmanay Revellers See In 2012“. And then take a look in The Guardian at this one: “Pit Them Away Hen! Guide to a Real Scottish Hogmanay“. For more on this shameful ancient annual fire lit Pagan bender, with its Robert Burns overtones of Celtic mysticism, witches and pleasures of the flesh, to which no one has ever invited us, see Biggar Bonfire 2011.
Three days ago, the Up Helly Aa Vikings from Lerwick in the Shetland Islands started Hogmanay’s annual torchlight procession in Edinburgh. (David Moir/Reuters)